Genealogy Projects tagged with Lomde Pozna on the Geni Family Tree

Jewish Community of Posen (Poznań)

Poznań’s Jewish community was one of the earliest to be established on Polish soil; the first reference to Jews living in the town comes from 1379. Tradition dates the town’s synagogue to 1367, and the cemetery 1438. In the second half of the fifteenth century saw the establishment of Poznań’s famed yeshiva, known as Lomde Pozna . Tracing Jewish ancestors from Posen Province is a challenge for ...